Aircraft Observation of a Two-Layer Cloud and the Analysis of Cold Cloud Seeding Effect

• Published in: Frontiers in environmental science Vol. 10
• Main Authors: Dong, Xiaobo, Sun, Xiaoshen, Yan, Fei, Zhang, Jiannan, Wang, Shuyi, Peng, Min, Zhu, Haipeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A 01.04.2022
• Subjects: aircraft observation; cloud seeding; precipitation; stratus cloud; supercooled liquid water

A two-layer stratus cloud was developed under the weather of an upper-level trough and return flow in North China. King-air 350 meteorological aircraft was designated to acquire the microphysical characteristics of this cloud. Within the lower-level warm cloud, the width of cloud particle size distr...